I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
DOROTHY PARKERWhere unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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Women and elephants never forget.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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